skeleton key

Did you really think the skeleton key was a place?"

He could tell that a skeleton key was in the lock.

Somebody was working the outer door open with a skeleton key.

He began to work at the lock with a skeleton key.

Like having a skeleton key that'll open the door to every room."

He closed the door behind him, locked it, with a special skeleton key.

He tried a thin skeleton key and opened the door without difficulty.

Skeleton keys took a little time, but soon the door yielded.

Instead, he used a skeleton key to open a connecting door into a room farther front.

He got the apartment door open in a swift minute or so with a skeleton key.

Someone out in the hall was trying to release the lock with a skeleton key.

I'm going to use my skeleton key to open the downstairs door."

The oldest books are kept in a glass case, locked with a skeleton key.

"I put one of my favorite stilettos and a skeleton key in her left."

You've discovered a skeleton key to writing and playing songs on the guitar.

A poor, useless lock; one that any skeleton key could open.

The Shadow used a skeleton key of his own.

It was locked, but his skeleton key settled that difficulty.

From her small handbag she produced a set of skeleton keys.

"Skeleton keys," Daniel said, speaking for the first time since he'd come into the room.

The all-purpose skeleton key, it turns out, is easy to copy.

When it comes to breaking and entering, this finger is the skeleton key.

He got out his skeleton keys and patiently tried a dozen before one opened the door.

While they were talking, the pursuer entered the room - with skeleton key.